If You See A Young Girl With This One Simple Word On Her Wrist, Here’s The Chilling Meaning

Fashion fads and other trends for kids come and go. Most are harmless fun and kitschy attempts to be cool. Lately, some young teenaged girls across the county have joined a trend by writing the word “angel” on their wrists. The fad has been magnified by social media under the hashtag “#sue.” But this trend is neither fun nor cool, and here is why you should be alarmed by it.

Social media has had as much of a baleful influence on society as good; and things like this show how bad it can be, especially for young people.

The “#sue” hashtag is used for young people–especially girls–who are considering suicide, anorexia, and self-abuse like cutting to join together and commiserate. Unfortunately, it isn’t a movement meant to help these young people, but instead tends to exacerbate their mental anguish and celebrate suicide.

“In a world where these companies actively police hashtags like #cutting and #proana to crack down on inappropriate content, young people are trying–and mostly succeeding–to fly under the radar by creating codewords like #sue and #secretsociety123 to discreetly form communities organized around self-harm, and they’re showing up in strong numbers,” Krystie Lee Yandoli wrote. “An Instagram search for the #sue hashtag, a secret word for suicide, reveals nearly 800,000 tagged posts. The vast majority of these posts all contain evidence of cutting, quotes about depression, and messages related to self-harm.”

Worse, some social media outlets seem to fully understand the hashtag is used to promulgate mental illnesses. As IJReview found, when the hashtag is typed into Instagram, a warning message comes up informing users that “graphic content” is associated with the tag.

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In fact, fully acknowledging that the hash tag does not relate a good message, Instagram even offered a link to a suicide prevention organization in its warning message.

IJReview also discovered that worldwide, there are some one million posts under the suicide-promoting hashtag.

The trend for writing “angel” on wrists signifies that girls who are contemplating suicide will become an angel when they die. So, if you see this written on a girl’s arms, you should probably be very worried for her safety and mental health.

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One #sue hashtag user recently aggrandized suicides, saying, “In our eyes, everyone who commits suicide becomes an angel. If your whole life was spent in hell, you belong in heaven. We envy those girls for having the courage to do what we all want to do, but we also respect them for bearing so many years before ending it all.”